Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

184 Fraser to Evatt

Cablegram 130 WELLINGTON, 13 August 1945, 11.20 p.m.

IMMEDIATE TOP SECRET AND PERSONAL

I agree that the exclusion of the British Dominions from the Council of Foreign Ministers is a matter for protest and further representations for this practical recognition of the sacrifices made by the Dominions in the European theatre. I am repeating to you my telegram to the Secretary of State on this subject [1], and I propose to send a further personal message to Attlee drawing attention in particular to the most unsatisfactory attitude adopted towards Australia and New Zealand in the Dominions Office reply to your telegram. [2]

1 Fraser's cablegram 229 to Addison, dispatched 13 August, (repeated to Evatt as 128), expressed agreement with Evatt's views given in Document 141. In AA : A3195, 1945, Folder, Inwards Most Secret Master Sheets, 1.26157.

2 Document 158.

[AA : A3195, 1945, FOLDER, INWARDS MOST SECRET MASTER SHEETS, 1.261551]

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